Etymologies
- Contraction of "cybernetic organism", via cyborg (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Self-confessed eyeborg Rob Spence's story is a real eye opener ROB Spence uses the word "borg" a lot.”
“Perhaps we should reserve the term "cyborg" just for the organic cyborgs, and use the word borg to refer to the old-school mechanical cyborgs.”
“The entertainment borg is attempting to crush the most innovative, valuable industry in the country: the technology industry.”
“In chapter 4, titled "futures I will not see", you discuss space travel, genetic modifications/perfections, "borg" - like societies (aka North Korea) and humanistic robots as futures that you do not foresee as probable in the near term (correct me if I have this wrong).”
INTERVIEW: Michael Hanlon, Author of Eternity, Our Next Billion Years
“While this may be an honorable, it can easily create a 'borg'-like mentality.”
“I made up the name MotorBorg, swiping from the Star Trek franchise the concept of a "borg," or a mass of individuals connected to think and function as a single being.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Motorborg' Takes on Traffic Snarls
“I'm sure my fellow "borg" will be responding soon, (someone teased about RP supporters being such on another page ... quite funny, actually!), but here's the take of a 33 year old male libertarian on your questions.”
“But, with such a query to we, the "borg" of the Ron Paul Revolution, did you expect comments that would be contrary to this?”
“I would not cherish it 'gainst Ing'borg's brother.”
“I wanted to dispel the "borg" perception and show people that I am not a robot, nor do I feel kinship with the cast of "Revenge of the Nerds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘borg’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Humanoids
Magical, mechanical, or medical. All man-made.
golem, android, humanoid, Frankenstein, inukshuk, bioroid, replicant, biorobot, automaton, gynoid, droid, cyborg and 12 more...
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A List of Mythical Proportions
All of these things exist, I swear!
unicorn, pegasus, cyclops, yeti, abominable snowman, bigfoot, phoenix, thunderbird, sea serpent, ogre, grue, troll and 138 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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people from another world
jawa, klingon, vulcan, romulan, borg, trill, jem'hadar, ferengi, bolian, betazoid, bajoran, ewok and 16 more...
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Star Trek words
words and terms from Star Trek
heisenbergkompens..., stasiskammer, quantenslipstream, quantentorpedo, technobabble, android, hypospray, treknobabble, holodeck, ramistat, trägerwelle, imzadi and 40 more...
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The Final Frontier....
...a work in progress
tachyon, matter, anti-matter, warp, transwarp, klingon, vulcan, romulan, tractor beam, deflector, wormhole, nebula and 3 more...
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slang
fanfic slang, hacker jargon, Internet memes etc. that amuse me—mainly ones I might wish to incorporate as natural in my own writing
asamoth, beta, borg, bozo filter, canon rape, delurk, drabble, eated, eleven, facepalm, fangirl, fanon and 61 more...
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Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a wordie
Thanks for the title chained-bear
tribble, romulus, defiant, enterprise, ds9, cardassian, ferengi, runabout, starfleet, starfleet academy, prime directive, borg and 65 more...
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Artificial Intelligence
Names for thinking machines and man-machine combinations in fiction and real life.
robot, bot, android, droid, mechanical man, mecha, automaton, replicant, cyborg, borg, bionic man, cybernetic organism and 10 more...
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Emelina's list
Tweets
Looking for tweets for borg.
nuxiy Norwegian for fortress/castle Mar 17, 2009
seanahan Resistance is futile. Jul 7, 2008
qroqqa v.t. swallow (someone) so as to silence them for a period
etym.: EDB, the Everything Death Borg on Everything2, who would swallow noders who got fractious in the catbox Jul 3, 2008